f $lct)otci ta fpolitics, literature, Vgri culture, Science, Jlloraliiu, axib eneral Intelligence. VOL 18. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. DECEMBER 8, IS59. NO. 49. lie Published by Theodore .Schoclh TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance Two tlollars n nl i quarter, hnlfyearlv and if not paid be fore the cad of the year, Two dollars and a half. No papcrsdisconiinucd until all arrearages arc paid, xcepl at the option of the Editoi. lOWdvcrtiscments of onesquaroden lines) or less, one or three insertions, $1 00. Each additional niscr ton, 25 cents. Longer ones m proportion. including Indian.) 13,000; Uuited States State. And, bo long as ranches of five AmerijnuH, 8,000; Europeans, 5,000. hundred to maDy thousand aero-, each The Aborigines were estimated, in 1856, stand in place of small, neat, wcll-rulti by Col. Henley, Superintendent of Indian vated farina, thin deficiency, though it Anairs, at ba,uuu. 1 believe this a gross may be modified, will continue. SOIS PRB2VTIHG. Having a general assortment of large, plain and or namental Type, e are prepared to execute every dc cription of ards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes. Dlank Recciptss Justices, Legal and other Ulanks, Pamphlets. &c., prin, ted with neatness and despatch, on roasoiuhle term at this office. JOHN IIAYJi Q. DUCKWORTH. DUCKWORTH & HAYN", here as in rainy countries. A given a ' niouut of labor accomplishes far mere in j any directiou than at the East. The rrie ! man may start on a journey, of business Groceries, Provisions, Liquors,&c. or P!eas"ro, without consulting hi barom- wunoui looking into uis WIIOLRSALE DEALERS IN No. 80 Dey street, New York. June 16, 1S59. ly AN OVERLAND JOURNEY. XXXIII Califonia Summing- up. San Francisco, CbI., Sept. 4-5, 1850. The entire area of this State is ofEaiHl- lv estimated as containing a fraction j 00 bright and plump as ever less tban One Hundred Millions of acre; but, as this total includes bays as well as lakes, rivers, &c, the actual extent of uu- bave already somewhat considered. That profitable field of mining adventuro, is ( it would be moro inviting and attractive now noarly at an end, or turned over to : in aspect, especially to those unaccustom- the Chinose, who are willing to work hard ed to such sterility through the latter half and steadily for much less than will satis of each Year, cannot be doubted. "With fy the aspirations of a Yankee. There . . . 11 Ml a? O T T I T I l m a -i such ram, its natural pasturage would aro Mill ome erecir-ocaa mat win pay in exaggeration six j.nnian neservMions J- nave visited neveral ot tbe uommon snfilce for twice its present number of Winter, when water is abundant, that re- have been officially established in differ- Schools of San Francisco, and fouud them cattle, while culvitaion could bo oxtonded main to bo washed out; but, in the main, ent sectious of tho State, on which all the admirable in their appointment.'', under Indians nave been gatnored that could bo intelligent and vigilant supervision, and and those amount to barely 17.205, ac- in a high stato of efficiency. There may cording to the official returns, vbioh bo- somewhere be better managed Seoiina ing the basis of requisitions on the Gov- ries than the High School, butt never ernmeut, are certain not to fall below tho entered their door3. Most of the smaller truth. I do not believe there are bo ma- j cities are taking bold of the Mibjcct id ny more Indians in the State; aud, what-' tho right spirit, but under many diaad ever maybe the number, it is steadily j vantages. Youth are too often kept a and rapidly diminishing. ThcBO Indians way from school to earn money which are generally idle and depraved, while ( their parents eoold do without, and the white men who come in contact with j many parents wait till they have improved them are often rascala and ruffians, who i their circumstances essentially before they hold that Indiana have ".no rights which think of educating their children. I was white men are bound to respect." By told in Marysville that many of the pu far ud into the mountains, on lands now river-inimnsr is at its last gasp. Very deemed arable only when irrigated. Yet, few dams are being or havo recently been on the other hand, these dry Summers constructed to turn rivers from their beds havo their advantages. By their aid tho and permit tbeso beds to be sluiced out; most bountiful harvests of hay and Grain and I doubt thst this special department are secured in the best order, and by of mining ever paid its aggregate coat. means of the leant possible labor. Weeds . The expose is serious; the product often are not half so inveterate and troublesome moderate, and subject to many contin- ifornin forbid it. I have no choice but to return by way of the Isthmus, for I can wait no longer. Aod so, as the good steamer Golden Age swings from her moorings, I wavo to my many and gene rous friends in California whose number I trust ray visit has not tended to dimin ish a fervent and beany adioul Horace Greeley. etcr, and aimcnac. the fool Nobodv, rw . 1 geucies. liencefortn, dams will no con structed mainly to feed the canals or "ditches" whereby water is supplied to works that must otherwise bo abandoned. Of these ditches, the State Register for 1859 has a list of several hundreds in submerged land can hardly exceed Nine- ty iuiiliona ot acre, or ratner more tnan jjine times the area of New-Katapshtre or Vermont perhaps twice the ares of the State of Mew-York. It is only a guct on my part, nut one louncea cu considerable travel and observatien, which makes not more than one-third of the ex tent sayThirty Mi1Hods of acres prop erly srablo; the residue being cither rug gedly uiouutainotjH, hopelessly desert, or absorbed in the tide marshes which lino tbe San Joaquin and perhaps seme other rivers. The arable Thirty Millions of acres nearly the area of all New-England, except Maine arc scarcely equal ed iD capacity of production by any like area on earth. They embrace the best Tinoland on this continent, to un extent cf many millions of acres an ?rea capa ble of producing all the Wine aod all the Raisins annually consumed on the globe. All the Fruits of the tessperate zone tro gronn here in great luxuriance and per fection, together with the Fig, Olive, &c, to which the Lemon and Orange may be added in the South. No other laud on earth produces Wheat, llye, aud Barley so largely iritu so little labor as the great majority of these Thirty Miliion acre?; o portion of them are well adapted also to Indian Corn. To Stock growing iu an eiy, slovenly, reokle.s way, this mild cli mate and fertile toil also lend themselves readily; yet I must believe that many more acres are required here to graze a thousand head of cattle than in New-York or Kentucky, and tbet the capacities of California to furnUb Beef aud Milk in thi? poor fa-hion htve been taxed very nearly to the utmost. Doubtless, four, MX, or even ten times the present number of cattle will be fed here at some future day, but not wholly on the spontaneous growth of the valleys and hillsides. iNay; I hear already that, as the Wild Oats and natural grasses sre clorely fed every year so as to preclude their seeding or prevent the oed falling to the earth and germina ting, tbey grsdually die out, and are sup planted by coarse, worthless weeds. Et- idently aud I rejoice orer the fact the dy of ranches, or broad, unfencvd do mains, over which the cattle of the own- ' er range at will, protected only by his brand from indiscriminate appropriation, is pasting away for ever. Aud it is high j tiice. 1 bouiru the range is yet many acre! save in Winter or iu number, amounting in the aggregate to those, tho poor savages aro intruded upon, pils of fourteen years and upward, in her , hunted, abused, robbed, outraged, until schools, were just learning to read. they ore themsolve driven to acts of vi- There ought to bo two thousand good j olenee, when a "war" oasues, and they common schools in operation this Winter j aro butchered without mercy. If an hou-jin California, but I fear there will not bo ! est census of the various tribes and bands hundred. I entreat the early and ! be taken in 1860. their number will not earnest attention of ber better citizen to , be found to much exceed 30,000, whioh bor lamentable lack of School. In no , 1870 will find reduced to 10,000. The way can her energy and wealth be better , j native or Spanish Califomian are already , employed than in multiplyingand improv- j ' reduced in number since 1849, and aro ng them. now mainly confined to the southern agri-!WHAT IS THE INDUCEMFKT K0U FIjuThek im- cultural counties. I have not seen half migration adozenof tbemin a month' travel through I have endeavored so to arrange the' the heart of the State. fact8 embodied in my letters from thin The Census of 1850 made the total pop-(State as to furnish an answer to this ulatioo of California (Indians not count- - quefition. I will here only sum up my ed) 92,597, but there wore aomecounties conclusions early Spring, over oasts an apprehensive 5,726 miles of artificial water-courses con look at the &kies; it may be cloudy cr fog-, siructed wboJiy for mining purposes, at a gy. a it oi'teu is; but you know it cannot total cost of 813,575,400, or about twice rain till next November, and lay jour that of the original Erie Canal. Tho lar plaus accordingly. I have passed largo gest of those ditches is that of the Euro fields of lauding Wbent that have been ka Canal Company, leading water from dead-ripe for at leant a month; they will the North fork of the Cosumnes River to shell soaie when cut, but tho Grain will Diamond Springs, 290 miles, at a cost of ill thro'i $80,000; but there are many far more tho Grain region, vou see Wheat that has ' exnsnsivo and important, being far lar- been thrcbhed and sacked, and piled up ' ger, -and carried over a raor difficult iu the open field where it rev?, to await country. At tho head of these stand the tho farmer's convenience in taking it to ! Mokelumno Hill Canalin Calaveras coun ruftrketi and it may lie so for months with-: ty, only 60 miles loDg, but coating $G00, out damage, uulees from sq?iirrt ls or goph- 000, the Columbia and Stanislaus Tuo er. Wheatsowu throughout the Winter, lumne oounty8() mileslong.whichalsocoat though the earlier sown is the surer. 800,000 and the South Yuba Canal, Nova Plowing commences with the rains, and , da county ,00-ting $500,1)00. Many larger sowing should follow as closely aH may enterprises than even these base been pro be. Very decent crops of "volunteer" jected, but notyetcarriodout, because cap Grain are often grown, by simply bar-; italists cannot be found willing to supply rowing in the seed shelled out and loot in 1 the needful cash. Thus, in Maripoaas the proceeds of harvesting sometimes e-1 alone it lias oeen estimated that an an ven though the harrowing is otnited. But ! nual rental often millions of dollars would the ground equirreld aro opt to intercept be paid for water, could enough of it be this process by 611ing the grain-fields with ! had at living rates. 1 merely guess that their holes, and eating up all ths scattsr- jit could not be paid many years, ed graiu and a good deal more. Thevj Of oouse, I do not suppose that tho area preat pest in many localities, and; Gold Miues of California will ever be Strychnine is freely and effcctivclv cm-1 thoroughly worked out certainly not in 1. California has still great need of ployed to diminish their numbers. TIIE MOUNTAINS AND MINES. I have estimated that barely one-third of the total area of unsubmerged Califor nia is perfectly arable; but it would be a grent mintake to suppose the refidue worthless. At least Thirty Millions of acres more are covered by rugged hills and mountains, mainly timbered mneh of the timber being large and of the best quality. Yellow, Pitch and Sugar Pine the ritsb. i'me beiuir ecnrcelv akin to the next thousand years; yet I do not an ticipate any considerable increase in their annual production, because I deem 850, 000,000 per annum as much as can bo taken out at a .profit under existini cir- froin which no returns were received, wnieti, it was estimated, would increase virtuous .educated, energetic Women. the aggregate to 11,5.J8. Only two Qno hundred thousand more of these years thereafter, a State Census was ta-jwouid gn(j norae3 and D0 useful here. ken, which iuoreased the number to 264,- j Qf course, I would advise no woman to 435 it haviug more than doubled (by j pitch into such a community devoid of the immigration) in two years. Of this num- protectiou of relatives or trusted friends; ber, only 22,193 were females less thaujbut woman WQ0 can teach, manage a dai one tenth of the whole; while tbo great, ry keep uouse &c and do not 'fancy a majority were men in the vigorous primo.ny usefui work degrading, are still great- ii f n 1 hn ctn fn rr nnhlin m nrn I a n I i tit rr v,. .uv i jiuwLu uuu " I iv neeaea nere. iiouse servants com- mong a population eo uisproportioned, .in a land far removed from the restraing in fluences of home aud kindred, wore bet ter imagined than described. , To-day, the total population of the Golden State (excluding Indians) is prob ably not less tban Half a Million : the paid in proportion. For a resolute, ca pable young woman, who has a married sister or trusted friend hero, and who is not detained elsewhere by by strong nat- cumstances. Ihe early miners of Cahfor- Census of 1850 will doubtless give a etill try than this. nia reaped what Naturo had been quietly - larger aggregate. Of these, I judge that Good farmers, who have considerable sowing through countless thousands of ' some 50,000 are Chinese, with about an i means, but especially those who under years. Through the aetion of frost and j equal number of Europeans or Mexicans, 'stand the dairy business, and have fa'mi tire, growth and decay, air and water, she not including those who by treaty or oat-ljes wno oan aDj wjU render their effi- had been slowly wearing down the prim- j uralization have become American citi-Jcient help in it, can also do well here. itive rocks in which the cold was origi-'zens. Of the Half Million, probably 75.-j Thn naked faots that whilp Whpat-now 000 aro under Itf years of age, while per-! sn? fnr SI hnshpJ Hmfcr A Night in a Pigeon Roost. Just now the wild pigeons roost in in numerable numbers in the Chenango Swamp, Crawford county, Pa., about two miles east of the Ohio line. The Swamp is about ten miles long by two or three wide, grown up with tamerack or larchtreos and alder bushes. Tho ed itor of the Ashtabula Sentinel has been among tho pigeons. He says: When within two miles of the roosting place, we began to hear tho roar of the Lwings of the millions of bird there con gregated, whioh literally equalled tho roar ot iNiagara. xJut tho sights and Bounds that greeted us as we neared the swamp, beggar description. There were I probably a hundred hunters assembled and at work. These were divided iuto parties of not more than two or thece some in the tauieracks, aud some in the alders. At a shot in the bushes the birds rose in a mass and settled in tho trees; and when fired upon there they flew to the bushes. This changing con tinued all night. At a cinglo shot, tho flock always rose and flew a short dis tance to settle or be fired upon again,: This scene hit-ted all night. Thu usual mode of bunting the pigoons is for two men to go together one with a gun, and the other with a bag and lanthorn and matches. As soon as the shot is fired, the bag man strikes a light and "bags" tho birds; and this must be done speedily, or the wounded ones will hide and be lost. Six dozea i9 quite a heavy load for any man. We "gin cout" under five do zen, very soon. We were told to firo with one barrel at the bushes, and with the other at the "bile up." The term mand $20 to 530 per month; capable fe- boil up, is a very natural one, for at eve male workers - in otber capacities are rv hot the flock will riso straicht ud- cz A ward, and after circling a few moments, make a swodping course, and then alight perhaps within a few yards of where they rose. The number killed seems almost incredible. One man killed four dozen at a single shot, and nine hundred in tho night. its stunted and scrubby New "Eugland I nal,J deposited, washing away the light- 000 aro under 18 years of age, while per namesake, but a tall and valuable tree !er uia"er. and concentrating tbo gold ' haps an equal number are women and tuus gleaned lrotn cuDio miles ol FtubDorn eirls over la, tuougn I rear not. luis the Sugar being nearly identical with our White Pine, save that its sap is saccha rine White Cedar, Redwood, Spruee, Balsam Fir all these averaging at iea-t twice the size of the tress in any forest I ever caw elsewhere, wmle iJalsara is just; the most shapely and graceful tree on earth such are tho forests which cover all tut the fnowy peaks of the mountoin of California. Trees six to eight feet through arc as coeiaon in the Siera Ne vada, and I hotr in the Coast Range &lso, as thoso three to four feet in diameter are (or were)iu the pine forests of Now Yrork and Nt w-England. Consider that these giants look down on the Gold Minea wherein a very large proportion of tho most active population of this State must for ages be employed, while the ag ricultural district lie just helow them, and even the seaboard cities aro but a day's ride further, and the value of these lorests necomea apparent. lue day la not. quartz and granite in a few cubic feet of would leave 350,000 men, ineludiug boys eartb at the bottom of her water-courses, over 18, nearly all in the prime of life Many a iniuer has thu taken out in a igorous, active, enterprising and indus day gold which could not have been ox- trious. There are idlers and drones hero traded from tho rock where it first grew 1 as elsewhere; but there probably was nov in many weeks. Even tbc hills in which er before a community of Half a Million it is now mainly found can bo washed people capable of doing so much work in ' down at one dollar or leas per cubic yard a year as this population of California. by the best hydraulic appliances. But The facts that they mine gold to tho ex wheu the miner is brought face to face tent of Fifty Millions of Dollars annually, with the rough granite, which he mutt while growing Four Millions of bushels drill and blast aud tunnel for all tho gold of Wheat, Five Millions of Bushels of Bar be gets, the case is bravely altered. Ho j loy, with large amounts of other Grain may mako money here; lie. sometimes and an ample supply ot Vegetables and and Cheese 25 cents per pound, brings 50 are The Boy Farmers. A Maine paper tells a good story of two boys, one thirteen and the other elev en, who on accountof the sickness of their father, were left to work the rarm. Thev nough to show that dairy farming is prof- thoroughly plowed and cross-plowed threo does; but I am sure that, up to this hour, Fruits for home consumption, would go not one Quartz-mining enterprise in every far toward establishing this point. fourhaspaid its bare expenees;und though But the industry of California produces there will bo brilliant exceptions, I am important results which aro not exhibited confident that quartz-mining, as a whole, above. No part of tho Union is making nnf noir fnr mnn T-oora In nnma T?!iflinr mnpn Tfinirl atriAoa In Vn?lfl!nr fnnninre labor must bo cheaper, or the process of opening farms, setting fruit-trees, breed ouartz-mining far more economical and ing stock, &o. The number ofGrapo- uaJ ,a! V- . .. . -u I. -rr , i r -, not distant there aro those living who cinciem, or me yieiu per tun mucu grea- , vines aione was mcreasea irom i.oftu, will see it when what is now California tsr bofore ouo undeniably auiferouR , 134 in 1856 to 3,954,548 last year, (of ;n I,,, r.nrtan of ti f s: quartz-vein in ten will pay the ooat of which -1,650,000 wero in the southern ViMh to-vuc.w - " P J - J - i - - . . a - ( T r- . i T V r !d nnd tho feed amnle for the irrea- ' Millions: then elicible timber lands in the working And, wnito I presume ira- uounty or J,os Aogclos alone.; ine ag : i. r.i . c;. un ,.. ,u.. provemcnts ter part of the year, yet the cos of Cali fornia give less milk to-day than a like number kpt for milk on any other por tion of the globe. The dry grass and otubble on which they subf-ist keep them is provemcnts will from time to time bo made ' greeato will bo carried this year above I hoar doubungly the talk of sanguine in- 6,000,000. Los Angeles in 1857 pro inventora and operators of doubling tho ' duced 350,000 gallons of Wine Proba- ' J 1.1 L L! il. i 1 il -1- - il. :. II . - The tiraber of the lower hills and plains Prouncv OI Solu J UUB or tUBl uew amai" my no oiuer raariiei, on earui is so wen ; impovensnea, or stay 1 1 I, . .. . n n I . .1 ... IU . 1. B. 1 1. 1. . .. 1 1 I .1 f 1 I . J izuujciiur ur uuici nuyiuu. uu uiuuy ui bisrra will be wortu more per aore tbau would now be paid for farms iu the neb et valleys near San Francisco. itable. Ihe best grazing country is found along the coast, but it is all good for those who understand it, and are will ing to grow feed for a part of each year. Bees do far bettor here than elsewhere, are worth S100 per hive, and good prop- ierty at that. i?ruit-growing is still prof itable; Vine-growing will always be. I believe a young, energetic, intelligent far mer, with a good wife and $2,000 or o ver, can do as well in California as else where, inspite of the horrible confusion of land-titles. Buy no tract of which the titlo is at all doubtful, unless you can buy all the conflicting claims, but pay higher for good land well located, and as to the ownership of which there is no dispute. Such may at all times be found; if settlers were willing to pay for thia rather than buy uncertainties at lower rates, it wonld be far better for them. I do not think it advisable for yonng men, or any others, to come here expect ing to "make their pile," and return to the East. The chances for doing this, always doubtful, have nearly ceased to exist. No moro merchants or clerks wanted; and of those who come hereafter, nine tenths will go baokidisappoiuted and here acres of rather rough ground; which they then sowed and then harrowed it threo times over. They also assisted in clear ing one acre of new land, which was sown with wheat. It grew well, especially that first sown, but at harvest, the father be ing still sick, there was none to gather tho grain but these two little lads. Hav ing neither the strength nor skill to use the cradle, tbey grasped the sickle with a resolute hand, and reaping what they oould each day, persevered until the whole four acres were thus harvested by tbem alor e. Tho produce of this crop would command in market $135, and they" did a good deal of work on the farm be side. This shows what boys can do if they really set about it, and mako work of work, and play of play not trying to do both at once. rnii'rnll v ( )a!r- shnrf.. hnrl lpfl rciHrt ) . ' I 1 f .i!l. in fnir fl.al. W f.,Ur.A .flntv overnlufl ! i.nrariimr. and of noor nualitv. save for lose uiriYoncoB n proveu mine or oi for butter and cheese. Good butter is fuel, being brash (easily broken, like a,1,tfc!e wfrtu. that 1 w.a,t' omxoal tests worth fifty cents nut over per pound, and clay pipe-i), and not durable. The P" that but a portion of the gold aotu has generally at this season a white iusip- more common variety looks like the White ' J contained in the vein-stone (especially id look, like that made in Winter at the ' Oak found in New England pasture, but 1 f a lphuret)w noir obtained by tbo crush Eat. Cheese commands twenty-five centD resembles it in looks only. Lire Oak wn8 aLnd washing process; but howsoon or per pound, andis seldom eeen on hotel next in abundance, and uUo a poor arti- hJ wbat process this proportion may be cs or private Ulcs. Yet tho production, olo. It has a smooth, dark bark, a short' bentally increased I do not koow.vbodoes though meager, is rapidly incLsing; the crooked trunk, a profusion of good-for-1 " fc fol lifli tr Lidc nnnmrn? ilirpothf nn f hfl Kfi. rirtlhtrTy Mmhfl. Hfiu ft in R 1 1 . oeftfi orefin o . iuiiu wvni " - w g - j j r n cifio, and thus kept green by its fogs and leaves, which defy the frosts of Wiotur. damp wiude, in spite of the fix month's The trunk is often barked by Vaudala for abeenco of rain, yielding it most abund- tanning, leaving the tree standing alive, antly. A ebceso weighing seven hundred but certain to die. Black and Rock Oak and fifty ponnds, tho product of a tingle are found in some of the mountain val- dairy, is now here, on its way to the State leys, tnd seem to bo of fair quality. Fair at Sacramento; tho large tore in Large Cottonwood and Sycamore line which I saw it is full of California made obecsc, from basement to attic. Yet California does not nearly supply her own wants, whether of Chfese or Butter, aud never will until ber dairymen shall deem it profitable to eheltor tbeir stodk in WiDtr and supply them with green fod der in later Summer aud Fall. When ever they shall generally devote one-quarter of their lands to growing Chilian Clo ver, Sowed Corn, Beets, Parsnips and Carrots, wherewith to feed their cows from August to February, they will mako twino or thrice their present product of some of tho streams, but very eparingly. rates, tho poorest business now prosecuted iu California. A few, who havo struok pockets rather than veins of peculiarly rich quartz, are making a good thing of it, and thoir luck is in every one's mouth; but of the hundrods who drive up long a dits through dead rock, or sink costly shafts to strike a vein at the best point, i r. . r i r 1 1 t A i t fn fl, Egrcou, .ro .h. pride of Califor, Vj ffi y .1 lV.,i nnlf At nAtfnntMlnij.1ilil ri D 11 If The Gold Mines aro generally found "'"P T .. h . fnnf.lii Is of trip S rra or n ' "FJ f" D18. among tbe tbe beds of the streams whioh traverse those hills. In many instance, hills now towor whore rivers once ran how long since, who may toll ? Trees in a state of eerci -petrifaction arc du;: out from unde-r hundreds of feet of solid eartb, which soema to have lain undisturbed since cre ation. The beds of ancient lakes are covered by rugged higbtr.; and, these beds Butter and Cheese, and prove thcira one beipg often auriferous, it is ono of tho of thp hflst, Dairv repiona on earth. But Habits, especially bad oup, ere stubborn things, and tboy will only como to this wisdom by degrees. Whether California would be a bet ter country if it had rain in Summer, I arts of the miner to know just where to tunnel through the "rim rock" bo as to I believe fewer quartz veins are being worked to day than were tome years ago; I think fewer still will be worked a year hence, and thence forward, until cheaper labor or more ef fective processes shall have rendered quartz mining a very different business. And until such change is effected, t ap prehend that tho anqualGold Product of California will not bo essentially augmen ted. POPULATION EDUCATION MORALS. The total population of upper Califor- paupers. supplied with Fruit throughout the year Goods are sold in Colifprnia at as reason as that of San Franuisoo a city hardly able rates, all things considered, as in yet ten years old. Strawberries are a- New-England or Now-York, and there bundant hero to-day, and arc in soasou are quite sellers enough. The chances from April to Denombor. Raspberries f0r "big strikes" in the Mines aro few, aro ripe in May, and are now abundant , and greenhorns cannot share them. and perfoot. Peaches aro fresh from : Mining is reduced to a-business, and one, Juno to November. Grapes cooio in J u-' at best, no better, in the average, than ly, and arc sold till December. All these other business. The men who dig the aud other fruits require preparation and gold carry away but a small share of it. outlay before thoy begin to mako returns. , Better loave the chanced of gold-diggiug The Oaroharda and Viueyards of Califor-1 to those who understand it. As to Labor for Wagep, it is generally JJjA new Counterfeit S10 note on the Stroudsburg Bank, of Stroudsburg, Pa., has appeared, wbich Imlay & Bick nell describes as follows: "Vignette a Farm Scene, a man and threo horsoe drinking at a well, goats and sheep, trees and houses in the distance; X in upper' left corner; sailor in lower right, and& farmer in lower left corners; has a pink tint; well done; are circulating freely. Look out for them." - ; nia have cost Millions of Dollars, which aro destined to return to their proprietors With interest in tho course of a fow years. jfcj"A down cast post has written an immense poem on "Nature," whioh com mencea tf "Wiggle, wiggle, pollywog, Pretty soon you'll be a frog. 9 rrpTbe following slanderous graph goes uurebukedl A wag. batmjf vented a new telegraph, lie proposes.tpj placo a line of woaicu fifty steps apajtj and commit the news to tho first of them a secret. well paid here say from 25 to S-10 per month, beside board, and for Mechanics Year. 1853 1850 1657 Com, Schools. 53 313 307 strike what was the bottom of tho lake, nia our Ualitornia, in contradistinction to and thus extract its gold as cheaply as tho peninsula still held by "Mexico). was maybe. Washing the beds of modern estimated, on the 1st of January, 1849, itreama, which was tho earliest and ciost 20,000: viz: natives of the country (uot As yet, there aro probably moro Apple-1 still highor. But employment is preca troes in tho State than there havo boenlrious, whether in the Cities, or the Mines, gathered bushels of Applos up to this while the Farmers are shy of hiring at day. I high wages when Wheat brings but 81 The following are tho latost School! per bushel. I cannot oonf-ider it worth Statistics of the State that I hove boon a-. 80y man's while to risk the prioo of a blc to find: ! passago hither for the chance of getting Teachers. Pupils.' employment by the month. Ihe expen- 56 11,242 aieot will" usually cost all it comes to. 417 30,019 if yoa come to California at all, como to 486 36,-2-22 . i nQWhero elso will you find a This number of pupils, was not in actual mo noro d(.sirBblo than hero. attendance on tho Schools, but w a return ot ' j;ed witb revolu,e all the children between 4 and 18 years Iiv- rr ftir in the cit.es or towns which had organ- wdu.trj and frugality, place yousoon on ized schools. The number who actually at- the high road to independence. tended school for even a part of a term was m of course much smaller, But tho steamship's shrill pipe gives r,. nfW fl, .lfi.Mnnnv of Woman wnruini? that I luuat bo up and away. I shown to exist in the population of Cali- had ardently hope and oxpec cd to C :.. M., Itl..... ol n it An ii n f " nf Sniinnla turn hv tho Butterfielu Overland A is the darkest shade in tbo pioturo. I be-, via Los Angeles, hort Yumas, i ucson, lieve Lhavo seen but tvro schooUhouses El- Fasso, eve, dui una wu - uU. re- Mail .... 1 1 I M . 1 . U n wk 1 r outsido of cities or considerable villages These, pesteneni ooi s, -in thecourso of my. travels.. througlMhe .scourge of mapy overland comers to Cal- as CviV"Tr. takc.4 fhrno editors to starf nnr.nr in Mi Hrlnnn fin tn not in a duel, one to die with tbejellowtef. ver, aud one to write an obituary of th defunot two. fgA Printer employed in Philadeljg phia, but residing in Camden, was recent ly presented with three daughters at a ingle birth. Three copios of a work jut one "impression5." Who shall bo able t say to what perfection the art may yet lie? brought: JfjT "We won't indulge in suoh horrjd anticipations," as the hen-picked bus band said, when the parson told him be would be joined to his wife in anothe world. "Parson, I hope you will no, mention thi unpleasant circumstance u- gain," said he.
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